Font Size
2 Chronicles 7:16-18
New English Translation
2 Chronicles 7:16-18
New English Translation
16 Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home;[a] I will be constantly present there.[b] 17 You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.[c] 18 Then I will establish your dynasty,[d] just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’[e]
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2 Chronicles 7:16 tn Heb “for my name to be there perpetually [or perhaps, “forever”].”
- 2 Chronicles 7:16 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”
- 2 Chronicles 7:17 tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.”sn Verse 17 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 18.
- 2 Chronicles 7:18 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”
- 2 Chronicles 7:18 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”
2 Chronicles 7:16-18
New International Version
2 Chronicles 7:16-18
New International Version
16 I have chosen(A) and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
17 “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully(B) as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees(C) and laws, 18 I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted(D) with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor(E) to rule over Israel.’(F)
New English Translation (NET)
NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.